Five for Friday – December 1, 2023

No testing related content in this post – just a quick trip report of our family vacation to Australia that I can point people to as necessary. Sydney (part 1) After a long flight, we landed in Sydney, where we immediately set out to explore a bit (I’ve found that walking in the sun is…

Part of our rhythm of business at Microsoft is setting yearly commitments. Technically, we do these in July for the fiscal year, but we were in the middle of shipping, so I didn’t get to my commitments until recently. On one hand, I don’t like commitments, as in many cases they don’t allow for change…

Warning, non-software post follows. 2014 was an interesting year for me. The year began with the trailing two weeks of a four week visit to Australia. Then, I spent July and August in France, then took another week off when I returned to take care of my dad. Finally, I took the last two weeks…

Here’s a story I hear often. The names have been changed to prevent the guilty. Jake had barely taken a sip of his steaming coffee when he saw that thirty-two of the automated tests failed in last night’s test pass. “Crap, I’m slammed today”, thought Jake, “I don’t have time to look at thirty-blanking-two failures”….

Back for another week of random links. I’ll skip linking to interesting chat bots, because maybe a chat bot wrote this post… But probably not. That’s all for this week – thanks for reading. Oh – and if you missed it on twitter, I want to start blogging again, but want to pre-rebuild a community…

I’m planning to give an internal presentation this week on what I do. I’ve been in my new job for three months, and although I’m still learning, I have enough of a routine that I’d like to share it with a few peers across the company to get feedback and ideas. Most of what I…